From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 18:44:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (verlaine.noos.net [212.198.2.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81DC37B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 365182 invoked by uid 0); 26 Oct 2001 01:44:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.145]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.73 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 26 Oct 2001 01:44:29 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9Q1iRA50747; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 03:44:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200110260144.f9Q1iRA50747@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK In-Reply-To: <20011025205902.G11022@buffoon.automagic.org> To: Joe Abley Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 03:44:25 +0200 (CEST) Cc: arch@freebsd.org Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Abley wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:50:22PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with > > > bawk? Any drawbacks? > > > > bawk is license friendly for us. I've gotten all the gawk'isms out of > > our tree and have run bawk as my system awk for a while. Want me to just > > do the vendor import and cut us over? > > > > I have not done this yet, because I know bawk can be slower than gawk and > > didn't want to fight that battle. > > gawk has features that bawk doesn't have. that may be considered as a problem. you could think you write portable stuffs until you try to use them on another platform. having a "true" awk w/o any extensions may help a lot in god practice. > I write a lot of awk (more than is healthy) and I know I am guilty > of using gawkisms. Hence, at the least, a large HEADS UP may be > worthwhile ahead of such a change to warn morons like me that their > scripts may be about to start breaking. you always have the choice to use gawk from ports... Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message